#temporal prime directive

[ragpicker-and-poet]

The more things change . . .

[sopranoentravesti]

*slaps coms badge*

Captain to away teams… I would like to remind you to uphold the temporal prime directive at all costs… and this means under NO CIRCUMSTANCES may you participate in any sexual contact with a being from the past —that is not an example of the predestination paradox, that’s not what that means—and that extends to no sucking, no fucking, I do not care what your excuses are we cannot predict the efficacy of their primitive birth control or risk them seeing through our cover and contaminating past events and rewriting the future for the love all that is holy….

Do I make myself understood?

Captain out.

[cabinboy100]

STAR TREK: PICARD: Why is Rios pooping so hard on the Temporal Prime Directive?

I've had some thoughts over the course of season 2 about this. Some of them may not fit anymore, but here's what I've got…

1. Concussion. That initial transport landing may have done some lasting damage, affecting his inhibitions and decision making. He never really let himself rest after Doc Teresa told him to, did he?

2. Mortal illness/imminent death. Rios has some health condition that is easily treatable in the Federation and Confederation future. However, trapped in the past, that regular treatment is no longer available, and without it, his condition is life threatening. He has weeks, maybe only days, to live. So, he's bucket listing and indulging in some end-of-the-line pleasures.

3. He has a friend in the Department of Temporal Investigations. His friend gave him some unconventional advice to follow should he ever be caught in the past. Try to step on or create as many butterflies as possible in order to shoot off a temporal SOS flare for the Temporal Integrity Commission to see. They'll be compelled to investigate and rescue them. The problem/trick with that is that the TIC may not exist in the dark timeline. However, as soon as the Europa Mission successfully launches, the prime timeline and TIC should be restored. So, there's a time delayed chance.

4. Concussion PLUS. That initial transport landing did more than rattle his brain—it rattled the brain of his dark counterpart! The dark Rios's mind has been affecting prime Rios's inhibitions and decision making in the hopes of creating a big enough temporal ripple that the dark timeline's version of the Temporal Integrity Commission would intervene, extract them from 2024, and preserve the Confederation. The big question mark here is whether or not the Confederation ever establishes its own TIC.

5. He *knows* it doesn't matter. He's recognized or understood something that proves that it's a predestination paradox. I really want this to be true, but I can't figure out when or how that could have happened in the episodes so far.

In season 1, did I miss a photo of his great-to-the-nth grandfather and grandmother in his foot locker or something? And they are the spitting image of himself and Teresa? Maybe he recognizes the Las Mariposas name and logo?

Could someone have explicitly told him? But the only ones who would have that insight would be Q, who he hasn't interacted with, or possibly the united Borgnes, who didn't exist until episode 9.

6. He's *betting* it doesn't matter. He's high on 21st century junk food and matches and feeling lucky (and reckless) and just gambling that their entire dark timeline/time travel misadventure is a predestination paradox. This one might be connected to option 1. =)

What Butterflies?

Honestly, Rios is not the only offender here with all the attention he's paying Teresa and Ricardo, but I think most of the other butterfly stomping has been unavoidable, collateral damage in pursuit of the mission and self-defense/preservation.

Some of the gang's actions that definitely impacted lives in 2024 include…

— Busload of ICE detainees released.

— A French constable lost his spleen, but may have gained some nanoprobes! A BQ contingency plan?

— JL's beam-in recorded. The gang tracked and recorded at the gala. Maybe Wells has cleaned that up, tho?

— Borgnes's hook-up from Deacon's. Poor guy. Were there others? Did LAPD create a file for a never solved set of serial murders in April 2024? Did Borgnes make those victims some of their first recruits via time travel?

— A platoon of Spearhead forces killed in various ways. Would they have been used/needed elsewhere?

Good Butterflies?

I know they're on a tight timeline, but it would've been nice to see the gang figure out how to mess with history in a positive way and leave themselves, their family, and loved ones some time capsule messages, y'know, like Marty leaves for Doc Brown in the past.

Was that "hide-a-skeleton-key" stone a secret that only wee Jean-Luc knew about? He could leave himself a message there. All of them could leave something there for him to pass on to them at some point.

Does Western Union survive into the 24th century? =)

Keep on keepin' on~

P.S. This is being written after S02E09 "Hide and Seek".

[there-goes-trouble]

There's no way I'd be able to like go back in time to meet my younger self, she'd have too many questions about why we don't look like we thought we'd look. She'd be convinced i couldn't really be her. We were too different. I wouldnt have time to explain, I would just have to tell her to invest in something because this is what a brutal post apocalyptic future has done to us, I'd snap my fingers come back to my reality and now, (because I'm rich and she followed orders) I'm walking on all marble floors, Corinthian columns are around me almost as almost as often as my wait staff. Would I like the paper today madam? No thank you, but I would love to see the private jet. The what ma'am? I would look aghast and then disappear behind one column, smack my rolex time crystal watch go back in time grab my younger self by the throat and tell her I need to invest in more things, that i miscalculated once and i wouldn't do it again. I'd snap my fingers and get out of there back to my reality and say OK let's try this again. Marble floors, columns are there, the wait staff is professional, but I would like to see the private jet. They say right this way, I say thank you. This is much better. This is the only way forward.

It starts with little things, the wrong kind of champagne-- she can drink it through a towel for all i care--the wrong kind of handbag and I've got to kick past-me down the stairs. It's all about getting things RIGHT this time. Getting it right every time.

But you cannot have a beautiful mansion in a story and not burn it. You cannot have a time traveler with no closed loop. You cannot have abuse without justice.

It's a not so special day when a version of me with white hair is taking the watch out of its case. Trying to destroy it, destroy me. That won't do.

Unfortunately for me, she is not alone. The bullets feel like ice passing through me. Ave Maria plays in the background. The room smells of gasoline. Somewhere, a match flicks. It doesn't take long; my maximalist tastes and furniture were all flammable. Old Me and Middle Aged Me look down at the bullet riddled corpse of their younger self, then each other, before disappearing from time. I exanguinate alone.

My youngest self who carried out my orders wakes up with a new watch, and as long as she wants to decide what to do with it. For the first time in weeks, she sleeps in.

[janewayforpresident]

Any time you get annoyed at Elon, Twitter, the whole shebang, just remember that neither his empire nor the internet would exist if Ed Begley Jr. hadn't reversed engineered all that jank from the Time Ship in the first place.

I think we know who the real culprit is here. . .

[grissomesque]

[atlantis-scribe]

I'm still a little sad that the part at the end of Trinity where Teyla warns Ronon not to tell the Earthers about killing Kell since they might not understand never really got anywhere because it turns out the Earthers were worse

[inheritedattitude]

↳    POST VOYAGER,    2378 - early 2400s.

                after a damn long time working as an engineer she can’t give it up so she takes a lot of lil jobs here and there but almost exclusively in positions where she could be near her family, including lecturing at the academy from time to time. she also has an honorary position at the daystrom institute where she also occasionally teaches and can basically come and work on research any time as she feels like it or has time on her hands.  eventually she becomes the federation’s ambassador to the klingon empire,  almost fifteen years after voyager makes it back (late 2392).  overall she just doesn't sit still very well, hence the multiple 'jobs', but never takes any assignment where she's away from her family for longer than a month at a time tops unless it's absolutely necessary.

PARTNER SPECIFIC INFORMATION:   @conzierge​ and i have established that she and tom have four kids in total.  beyond miral,  there’s no information developed on any of them,  but they exist!

VERSE DEFAULT:   by default i ship tom and b’elanna so they’re together and v happy,  but this can be adjusted for other ships or to adapt to a partner’s canon divergence(s)    [within reason - for example,  i won’t change the fact that i ship them just because you don’t if your muse has nothing to do with their relationship].  honestly i’ll probably go with what lyn and i have plotted as a base because it’s the most established plotting i’ve done,  but this can and will be adjusted based on my writing partner and their muse(s).

[fetch-those-damned-bolt-cutters]

I regularly think about Kathryn Janeway scolding Tom because he wanted to break the Prime Directive to save an entire planet in "Time and Again" and then cut to decades later and she fucks the Temporal Prime Directive by deliberately going back in time just to change her best friends' timelines

[cptnseven]

CANON DIALOGUE STARTER CALL.

a sigh precedes an analysis of the external behaviors of   (  @nobleimportance​  ),   leading to a simple statement that seven only hopes is reassuring,   “i’ve got your back,  you’ve got mine...  right?”

[fe26eagle]

Tomorrow is Yesterday

I’m watching an episode of Star Trek TOS in which the crew of the Enterprise go through great lengths to avoid changing the past.

It’s the remaster with brand new special effects

[thegummyteeth]

"Captain, we must uphold the temporal prime directive."

[stra-tek]

Mad stuff that's 100% canon in the Star Trek universe:

Going past warp 10 turns you into a hyper-evolved Salamander

Special cheese can bring down the highly advanced bio-neural circuitry of an Intrepid-class ship

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across many light years

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across universes

The addition of old DNA in a transporter can reset you physically to whatever age the DNA is from, but with all your memories and experiences intact therefore curing all ills

There's a forcefield surrounding the galaxy and nobody really asks why it's there

Touching it sometimes gives people Q-like powers

There's a Prime Directive not to interfere with pre-warp cultures but everybody does

There's a Temporal Prime Directive not to interfere with the timeline but everybody does

Captain Picard was turned into a Borg for a few days and was never the same again

Captain Janeway, B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok were turned into Borg for a couple of days and where just fine after

Discovery's new captain is probably still waiting on Vulcan

There's a planet in the centre of the galaxy surrounded by a forcefield with a big floating head on it that pretends to be God

The Borg, most deadly dangerous things in the galaxy responsible for enslavement of trillions, could possibly be forever defeated by a single jpeg of a weird shape but they don't do it because sympathy

There's a secret cabal of Starfleet officers that attempted genocide once and it's the only thing that saved the Federation

There's a universe which, when it bleeds into ours, makes everyone uncontrollably sing and dance

[direwolfrules]

God, I’m in my Janeway feels today.

She’s a science nerd. She’s a mom to most of her crew. She has endless sexual tension with just about everyone. She’s a deadbeat parent to her lizard children. She’s one bad day away from a severe depressive episode. She’s unable to resist adopting most pathetic lifeforms that cross her path. She’s godmother to an all powerful space being. She’s addicted to coffee. She’s Starfleet Temporal Investigations enemy #1. She looks good in a suit. She went full Ellen Ripley once. She’s an actual war criminal. She likes dogs. She violates the Prime Directive. She’s got self-sacrificial tendencies. Her fiancé Dear Jane lettered her. She keeps falling in love with holograms. Her Vulcan bestie struggles daily to keep her alive.

[princesscolumbia]

Star Trek Captains, A Review and Categorization

Star Trek is a show about a Neo-military organization that has rank structures, ships, and fights wars, so naturally there's plenty of captains to talk about, but for this post I'll be highlighting specifically the main cast captains, in something resembling chronological order. (But, I mean, this is Star Trek, so even that's kinda up in the air)

Captain Archer

That Guy who had to hand crank the warp engine up-hill both ways in the blinding ion storm. We don't need no stinkin' Prime Directive! Remember The Alamo Pearl Harbor 9/11 Florida! But...uh, maybe don't be dicks about it, not everyone who looks like the ones responsible for that thing we're never going to forget actually wants us dead. Got transformed into an alien, got possessed by another alien, slept with a couple more. Never got pregnant, though (that was his chief engineer)

Scorecard

Ships commanded: 1

Wars started: 0

Wars ended: 3

Times on screen naked: 1

Nazi facilities destroyed: 1

Category: Grampa

Captain Pike

Midlife crisis? What midlife crisis? Everything's fiiiiine. Now eat something, it'll make you feel better. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Number One, don't tell me I can't adopt more kids, I don't care that they're from the future they're mine now. Besides, we've already got a whole ship-full, what's two more?

Scorecard

Ships commanded: 2

Violations of the Temporal Prime Directive: -3 (yes, it's an irrational number, we're talking time travel, people!)

Musical Numbers Participated While On Duty: 3

Hair: Really Great

Category: Dad (or DILF if you swing that way)

Captain Georgiou

You will be captain when you can snatch the stone from my hand.

Scorecard

Ships commanded: 1

Protege's who required a redemption arc: 1

Awesomeness: Transcendent

Category: Gone too soon, also, MILF who can kick your ass

(Edit: Courtesy of @cheer-me-up-scotty for pointing out an oversite on my part)

Captain Burnham

Cosplays as a Vulcan 'cause she's jealous of her adoptive brother. Accurately called an audience-stand-in-self-insert-mary-sue (shut up, Star Trek fandom invented the Mary Sue, it was a term coined by women fans, so shut up!), but by season 2 she actually gets interesting.

Scorecard

Mommy Issues: Has a subscription

Moms: 4

PTSD inducing life events: Like, all of them

Ships commanded: 3

Mutinies led failed: 1

Category: That One Cousin who married surprisingly well and made something of herself in spite of all expectations

Captain Kirk

Golden retriever energy, would be the Useless Bisexual Himbo if he didn't have so much game. Probably smarter than he lets on. Polyamory King and certified Alien Fucker. Boyfriend is a half-space-elf, main sometimes-girlfriend will go on to create the deadliest super-weapon ever built by humans by accident.

Scorecard

Number of Klingon Bounties on his head: [CLASSIFIED]

Number of women he's slept with: [CLASSIFIED]

Nazi regimes toppled: 1

Number of times he should have had a test that determines if you can stick your dick in it that got named after an upstart from that other science fiction show instead: 1

Ships Commanded: 3

Ships He's Stolen: 3

Category: Slut(affectionate)

Captain Kirk (the other one)

Golden Retriever that got left behind when his family moved away and had to lead a ragtag team of a crotchety older dog and a wet cat on a journey...

No, wait, hold on...

Right! That's the one!

Scorecard

Times he should have been kicked out of Starfleet: At least 4

Ships commanded: 3

Ground transport destroyed: 2 (that we know of)

Number of middle fingers given to Admiralty: 2

Category: Bad Boy

Captain Picard

You know that guy who you see going to the library all the time and always seems to have his nose in a book and always seems to be telling people off for breaking the rules and doing dangerous shit? You'd never know it but he used to be That Guy in college who got, like, ALL the girls and is going to be the Hot Grampa that you don't know how he has that much game, but he got it.

Scorecard

Ships lost in the line of duty: 2

Number of times he married and then estranged his best friend's wife who named their son after her dead first husband: 1

Number of toxic omnipotent and omniscient boyfriends who are obsessed with him and spends their spare time playing with ponies: 1

Category: Inexplicable Sexyman

Captain Badass Sisko

The Cool Dad with baggage. He's got game, but he's got priorities as well, and DON'T mess with his son or you won't even exist anymore to regret it. BLM before it was cool. Led a civil rights riot two centuries before he was born. Space Jesus who can make the best jambalaya you've ever had. Fought and won a war, punched a god, then became one.

Scorecard

Civilizations saved: 4

Native Cultures Treated With the Respect They Deserve: Many

Times He Bent the Rules so his CMO could get some nookie from a Cardasian spy plain, simple tailor: The counter broke

Successful black-ops assassinations completed: 1

Category: BAMF

Captain Janeway

THE single most decorated captain in Starfleet history. Successfully dropped the hammer on dozens of petty tyrants, oppressive regimes, roaming mass murderers, and the Borg. What Prime Directive? Your Mom. Also, probably slept with your mom, that's how much she is the Domme-est of Dommes. She told the Borg to use the safe word...and they DID!

Scorecard

Borg Daughters: 1

Times she told the Borg to step off: 3 (or 4...or 5? Honestly, with the time travel shenanigans it's hard to know for sure)

Nazis she's personally shot: 1

Category: Mistress, but it's "Ma'am" to you

Captain Freeman

She's angry AND disappointed! She's just as good as all the other captains in the fleet, and the good ones know it, but all the rest? They see "cali class" and assume all they're good for is the jobs nobody else wants. But jokes on them, because thanks to that attitude her crew are the flippin' Jacks and Jills of all trades and are more capable of fixing AND fucking AND "fucking" shit up than damn near anyone else!

Scorecard

Times the ship has nearly been destroyed but she and her crew got through it: ...uh...how many episodes are there? And then there's the times that get casual mentions that we never get the details on!

Daughters who should probably be captains now if they were at least a LITTLE more respectful and didn't actively try to piss off Admirals: 1

Times the Cerritos has had to be rebuilt to the point it might as well be called "The Ship of Cerritos Problem": At least 4

Category: Your mom...get back here, I'M NOT DONE TALKING TO YOU!

Captain R'El

Cinnamon Roll, just let m'boy into Starfleet! He just wants a home and a family! I'd like to see full-grown captains who can keep up with half of what this Best Boy is capable of!

Scorecard

Number of species his genetic code is made up of: All of 'em. Even the GODDAMN Q!

Number of Janeways he impressed the socks off of: 2

Quality of his Janeway impression: Bad

Number of Ferengi he out-Ferengi'd: 1

Nazis punched: Give him time...

Category: Teenage Boy Who's NOT GOING THROUGH A PHASE, MOM!

Should I do Captains Shaw and Seven? How about Alternate Timeline Tripp or Future Chakotay? (Going too far down that rabbit hole will eventually lead to Imperial Kirk and Captain Spock from the movies.) Let me know in the comments.

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